Dosing device



Sept. 29, 1931.

A. T. DAVENPORT DOSING DEVICE Filed Nov. 24, 1930 I INVENTOR. A1" Thur T. D ave mp Ell-T ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 29, 1931 .1' i l v f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ARTHUR T. DAVENPORT, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DOSING DEVICE Application filed November 24, 1930. Serial No. 497,936.

This invention relates to new and useful face of a spoon bowl at its tip. B designates improvements in dosing devices and aims to a moulded rib formed on the inner surface provide a simple, inexpensive and widely of the top side of the sleeve and extending adaptable device for use upon the tip of a longitudinally the full length of the sleeve.

spoon bowl to facilitate the pouring of liq- The purpose of the rib is to prevent the posuids such as medicine therefrom. sibility of sealing the liquid in the spoon It is well known that in administering cerwhen the sleeve is stretched over the point tain medicinal substances to persons, and es of a spoon. C designates a nozzle of prepecially to infants and somewhat older childetermined length and suitable diameter 10 dren, considerable difficulty is often encounformed integrally with the sleeve A and comtered in properly administering the doses. municating therewith at its closed edge. As Particularly, this is true in administering described, this nozzle is preferably of the cod-liver oil and castor oil to children of tensame material as the sleeve such as rubber der age. They frequently succeed in spilling or other soft, resilient substance which by 15 all or a portion of the medicine from the reason of its nature and shape will be readily spoon in which it is usually offered, or mantaken by an infant, and which by reason of age to eject from the mouth part of the adits softness protects the infants mouth from ministered dose. The widely increased use injury. of cod-liver oil as a medicine for children has lVhen the sleeve A is attached to a spoon 20 emphasized the need of a dosing device parand nozzle is placed within an infants mouth, ticularly suited to the administration of such by upwardly tilting the spoon the medicine or an oily, viscous liquid to young children. I other fluid within the spoon bowl will flow find that my invention described herein satisinto the nozzle C and consequently into the fies this need in a highly efficient manner. infants mouth smoothly and without spill- 2 My invention generally consists of a soft ing. The dosing device can be easily and rubber sleeve adapted to be stretched over quickly attached to or removed from any the end of any ordinary spoon bowl and beordinary spoon which facilitates and thereing formed integrally with a nozzle which fore encourages frequent cleaning and sterilwill be readily taken into the infants mouth izing.

30 and which will conduct the liquid from the I am aware that various types of medicine spoon and sleeve well into the rear of the inspoons have been designed and patented and fants mouth so that the entire spoonful of that hard, detachable guards have been used the medicine will be taken by the child. on some of these spoons or an ordinary spoon.

In the drawings wherein like reference By their nature these attachments are limited characters indicate corresponding parts in to use 011 a particular spoon, or interchange- 85 three views: ably only on spoon-s of very like dimensions.

Figure I is a perspective View of my im- W'herefore I do not make any claim to the proved dosing device as seen from the forsubject matter of these inventions. What I ward or nozzle end. do claim as my invention is:

40 Figure II is a perspective view of the dos- 1. A dosing device adapted for inter- 7 ing device as seen from the rear or sleeve end. changeable attachment to any ordinary spoon Figure III is a detail longitudinal section for delivery of liquid therefrom, said device through the dosing device. eing composed of soft rubber or other soft,

Now having particular reference to the elastic waterproof material, and comprising 4 drawings, A designates a fan-shaped sleeve a sleeve shaped at one end to conform with of soft rubber or other soft, highly elastic, the bowl of a spoon and having at the other waterproof material that is adapted to be end anozzle ofreduced diameter to discharge stretched over the point of any ordinary the contents of the spoon and sleeve, and spoon bowl. The bottom wall of this sleeve means on the inner upper surface of the sleeve 60 is formed to the curvature of the under suradapted to provide an outlet passage between the sleeve and the spoon when in assembled. position.

2. A dosing device according to claim 1 having an internal longitudinal rib adapted to CODtELCt with the tip of a spoon when in operative position.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ARTHUR T. DAVENPORT. 

